Ciancio v. Serafini’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2012
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 189 Cal. App. 2d 140 - Nolte v. Smith · Board of County Com'rs of Pitkin County v. Pfeifer · Wilkinson v. Rowe · Greeley Transportation Co. v. People · Weather Engineering & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Pinon Springs Condominiums, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““any and all actions in tort, contract, indemnity, or contribution or other actions for the recovery of damages for: (I) Any deficiency in the design, planning, supervision, inspection, construction, or observation of construction of any improvement to real property....””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We have found no case, and none has been called to our attention, which holds that a boundary survey alone constitutes an improvement. There is nothing in the complaint here, or in the agreed facts to indicate that the then owners who ordered the survey contemplated construction of a building. The survey shows on its face that it is a boundary survey only. * * * * * * We hold that a survey which is not part of an improvement or building project does not constitute an “improvement to real property” as that term is used in § 13-80-127, C.R.S.1973, and that actions accruing because of negligence in performing such surveys are not within the purview of that statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bredthauer v. TSP
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.